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Originally posted by Astrocloud
The only way that it is beyond the bounds of a NORMAL investigation is that normally a person's drug habit isn't made public by a newspaper. Police get warrants for evidence, normally.
In Scott Weiland's case he was caught red handed with drugs in his possesion. He later violated his probation by committing DUI.
In the drug possesion case; he was pulled over while driving with no headlights on. The police used (gasp!) reasonable cause and searched his vehicle.
If you simply read the news link here. Then you realize that Scott has had an on-again off-again problem with heroin. He "was also arrested in New York City... for heroin possession, during a police drug sweep on the Lower East Side."
Drug sweep... what!??? Police harassing Junkies!??? -The shame of it. Perhaps only celebrities that I like should be excluded from their "politically motivated" investigations.
(I would like to re-emphasize that Rush Limbaugh is in no way as talented as Scott Weiland.)
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I'm very familiar with Weiland's arrests as I love STP. Too bad he's going the route he is. But anyway, finding drugs on people and doing drug sweeps in known drug areas are far different than going into people's medical records to prove a charge that likely won't even get the guy punished. As I've said before, medical records should be held in the strictest confidence no matter who that person is. I still believe that there is little chance a "normal" prosecution on these charges would include so much police time and searches of medical records.
After all, I don't believe he has a criminal record and would have probably gotten court ordered drug treatment and maybe probation. He has already done the treatment on his own so the judge will probably only have him evaluated at this point and maybe he'll get probation. In the mean time they are spending a hell of a lot of time for a relatively minor conviction with little to no prospect for punishment.